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# Wednesday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/32217/
- Published: 2014-04-02T10:28:46.000Z
- Updated: 2014-04-02T10:28:46.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Spritz-198x300.jpg "Spritz")

Spritz

This might be the most exciting thing I've seen on the Internet in five years: [Spritz reading](http://www.spritzinc.com/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). By breaking down reading materials into one word at a time, the software allows you to read 500+ words a minute with virtually no practice or training. I tried their sample and it seems to work.

Unfortunately, it looks like they're far from having any books online that you can Spritz. When they do, I have a few long-winded authors to Spritz through.

I've never been a big fan of speed reading, though. Part of my dislike might stem from my natural reading speed. Although I often get bogged down in a text (thinking about the substance or wondering why a certain stylistic usage is correct), fast reading is apparently one of my gifts. I didn't realize it until college, when friends studying around me would notice how many pages I had read in, say, the last 45 minutes and commented on it. So in that regard, speed reading probably never appealed to me because I never felt like I needed it.

But most of my dislike stems from the parenthetical above: you ought to stop to think about the substance of what you're reading (and maybe even the prose itself). You ought not speed-read a literary artist like Dostoyevsky. You can't speed-read poetry. It's malpractice for a lawyer to speed-read a contract. At some level, it's probably sinful to speed-read the Gospels.

Reading isn't supposed to be a chore. It's an inter-active art.

That being said, speed-reading definitely has its place. If they start to put newspapers into a Spritz format, you can count on me subscribing.

Heck, Spritz might be the thing that saves newsprint. By putting their publications into Spritz format, the big boys--*New York Times*, *The Atlantic*, *The Wall Street Journal*, etc.--could attract new subscribers. I know I'd be far more inclined to subscribe to a publication that allows me to Spritz it . . . since I rarely find popular prose worth pondering.